Let Me Feel Your Body
IMMENSIVA 2025 Art Residency Project
Displayed at Esproneda Center for Arts and Culture, December 2025
Let Me Feel Your Body is a mixed reality installation that invites the spectator to embody another person’s posture in order to access their hidden stories. Through mirrors, motion capture, and spatialized sound, the work transforms empathy from an abstract idea into a physical, performative act.
Spatial Setup
Physical Installation:
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4 large pedestals placed in the center of a large hall
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Each pedestal represents one embodied scenario
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Floor stickers with one sentence per pedestal, guiding interpretation
User Entry Point:
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Visitors choose a pedestal to begin the experience.
Inside the Headset
Artistic Statement
We live in a society increasingly shaped by hyper-individualism.
Social media, self-image, and self-help culture have reinforced a narcissistic worldview where the “I” is always at the center. Genuine human encounters: eye contact, gestures, and embodied presence, are replaced by curated personas and self-validation.
Let Me Feel Your Body responds to this disconnection by turning empathy into a physical act. The spectator does not simply observe suffering, they must inhabit it. Through posture, mirrors, and embodiment, the work reveals the hidden histories shaping behavior.
The installation does not offer answers. Instead, it asks the viewer to suspend judgment, reconstruct meaning, and recognize our shared fragility reminding us that what we perceive in others is often shaped by stories we cannot see.
